What kind of mauser has Costello got here?

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nothernug	What kind of mauser has Costello got here?	Lead	[-]
Posts: 10929 (08/15/08 12:43 AM) Host Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Tags : None That's as in Abbot & Costello in the Foreign Legion. (I love these old flicks.) Any way they were running a bayonet course and I notice the old sight on the mauser. It's hard to snap a pic off the TV but here's the best I could do. It's a full length pistol grip stocked mauser with a take down/unit disc. Diplomacy is the art of saying nice doggie until you can find a rock. Will Rogers
Colin		#1	[-]
Posts: 1667 (08/15/08 12:53 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Looks like an original Gew 98 with the ski jump rear sight; the kind of rifle they fought WW I with.
Mountain Doctor		#2	[-]
Posts: 2868 (08/15/08 11:00 AM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I think that's right. I love Abbott and Costello!
Rustybore		#3	[-]
Posts: 735 (08/15/08 11:21 AM) Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Just think, when that movie was made those rifles were probably "a dime a dozen". The movie industry had tons of them in their prop departments. Kevin in Or.
eagle7		#4	[-]
Posts: 3502 (08/15/08 03:33 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Yeah, it's a Gew98.....lange vizer rear sight (aka the "rollercoaster" sight) short hand guard, finger grasping groove in forearm, and I bet the bottom sling swivel is right below the pistol grip, not at the toe of the butt.
scooter222		#5	[-]
Posts: 4915 (08/15/08 04:08 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	The movie prop departments must still have a quantity of the old Gew 98s w/LV rear sights. The shore party in the latest King Kong movie(w/Jack Black) carried them along with Thompsons. I've got one that the Turks had. Just one tiny Cresent on the front ring.
high speed cruise		#6	[-]
Posts: 2381 (08/16/08 12:47 PM) Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Ya in WW2 movies you'd see Japs with those rifles and Lugars. GREG
m1 talker		#7	[-]
Posts: 6026 (08/16/08 03:30 PM) Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I seem to recall that a lot of Mauser rifles were supplied to Japan at one time. Also some Japanese semi-auto handguns were close to the appearance of the Luger in a quick film shot. Curt
nothernug		#8	[-]
Posts: 10931 (08/18/08 01:04 AM) Host Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Thanks guys. Diplomacy is the art of saying nice doggie until you can find a rock. Will Rogers
eagle7		#9	[-]
Posts: 3507 (08/18/08 12:05 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	M1 talker, Japan received a shipment of Vz 24 Czech Mausers for their navy in the late 1930s, 1937 IIRC. Japanese forces in China also used a number of K98s that were captured from the Chinese. Germany exported those guns in the early 1930s. If you read American war time accounts of the war in the Pacific, for some weird reason Japanese pistols are often referred to as "lugers"; perhaps because the Nambu pistols have a similar grip angle???
m1 talker		#10	[-]
Posts: 6030 (08/18/08 02:23 PM) Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Thanks eagle7. You confirmed what I thought. Curt
high speed cruise		#11	[-]
Posts: 2391 (08/18/08 10:13 PM) Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	In "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" the Chinese rescuers spiriting our heros off indeed had a Luger in hand before the boat scene. GREG
bhp9		#12	[-]
Posts: 1290 (08/23/08 03:02 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I remember seeing an actual combat photo of U.S. troops on Guadalcanal and one fellow was holding a captured German Luger which really surpised me. I could be wrong but I thought I read somewhere in the distant past the statment that Japanese officers originally had to buy their own personal pistols until they later were issued Japanese made pistols. True or False?
dou 44		#13	[-]
Posts: 2219 (08/24/08 02:31 PM) Host Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	i was watching mash and they showed a NC surrender and he had a mp40 .Frank looked funny with it.
eagle7		#14	[-]
Posts: 3521 (08/24/08 03:37 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	True, bhp9. Japanese officers often bought their own pistols, as the British officers did. The FN model 1910 and 1922 pistols were a popular private purchase handgun for Japanese officers, so I'd guess German and Czech pistols were probably also bought.
Colin		#15	[-]
Posts: 1676 (08/24/08 10:27 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	bhp9: I remember that photo. If I saw it right, the Luger had a plate on the side: probably a Dutch Luger captured in Indonesia.